We love swimming pools at the thetoyzone.com so we put together a list of our favourites:
1. Ledge Pool
At 10 floors up, this hanging pool in Texas gives swimmers a dazzling view. The pool has an overhang of 8 feet directly above Dallas main street.
2. Baghdad Pool
Local Iraqi’s didn’t let the the small matter of a war stop them taking a dip. However I do worry a little about where that soldier is pointing his gun.
3. Worlds Deepest Pool
At 33 meters deep this is the worlds deepest manmade pool. The Nemo tank in Belgium is loved by scuba divers around the world.
4. Derelict (Radioactive) Pool
So you won’t find this at your nearest Hilton but this place is still really cool. This place would be great to host an illegal rave or even just some skating.
EDIT: Thanks to Nick for pointing out that this pool is actually in Chernobyl.
Nick: You do realise that pool is at Pripyat, a city in Ukraine that is abandoned due to it’s proximity to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?
Don’t think many people would fancy a rave or some skating at the risk of radiation poisoning!
5. The Mayan Temple Pool
The Mayan Temple slide shoots you vertically through a shark tank. Thankfully the “leap of faith” is protected by flexi glass.
Recently one shark had its own leap of faith when it jumped the 1ft high barrier onto the slide itself. Whilst the shark survived the drop it sadly died in the chlorinated pool below.
6. Auckland Hilton Hotel
This unique pool has an underwater viewing window that offers breathtaking views of the harbour.
Peeping toms armed with a telephoto lens are in with a chance of catching a sight of bikini clad bathers.
7. Infinity Pool
Infinity pools are designed in such a way that it looks like the pool stretches on forever. This amazing example of such a pool is at the Bulgari Resort in Bali.
8. Worlds Largest Swimming Pool
Try holding your breath and swimming a length of this pool!
This mammoth of a pool is over 1,000 yards long and most people get around of small boats. With 60 million gallons of water, I wonder if its ok to take a piss in it?
9. Pool in your garage
Most of us can’t afford a $30 million infinity pool in our backyard but a guy named Paul didn’t let this put him off having a pool. Paul decided to convert his garage into a pool ““ DIY style. Using parts ordered off the internet, Paul managed to fit a pool where he used to park his Honda.
10.Golden Nugget Casino Pool
In true Vegas opulence this $30 million pool complex has a water slide passing through a shark infested tank.
11. Devils Swimming Pool
Each year the dry season allows the creation of mothers natures ultimate infinity pool. At any other time of the year, swimmers would be swept away to their deaths!
Low water levels reveal a rock wall that allows dare devil bathers the ability to swim just feet away from Victoria falls crashing into neighbouring Zimbabwe.
12. Mega packed Pool
The job of the lifeguard must be insane at this pool in the Chinese province of Sichuan.
Some nice (and crazy) pools there, I loved the story about the shark (poor thing though) and the packed Chinese pool photo.
“Derelict Pool
So you won’t find this at your nearest Hilton but this place is still really cool. This place would be great to host an illegal rave or even just some skating.”
You do realise that pool is at Pripyat, a city in Ukraine that is abandoned due to it’s proximity to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?
Don’t think many people would fancy a rave or some skating at the risk of radiation poisoning!
I pity the pool…
Dude The Aztec Resort Pool is wrong. That’s the Mayan Temple at the Atlantis Resort. I should know. I’ve been there, I went down it.
That derelict pool is actually in Pripyat, Ukraine, so it would make an unusual rave location indeed… considering the whole area was and still is contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster!!
The ‘derelict pool’ is in Prypiat where the Chernobyl disaster happened, good luck raving there without getting irradiated
Number 4 is a picture of a pool near Chenobyl that some dude took said picture of while he was driving through the area on his motorbike. This pool and surrounding senery was faithfully recreated in one of the missions on Call of Duty 4.
Number 4 was a picture taken of a pool near Chenobly that some dude took a picture of while travenelling through the area on his bike. It was also faithfully recreated, with the surrounding senery in the game Call of Duty 4.
Number 4 was a picture taken of a pool near Chenobly that some dude took a picture of while travenelling through the area on his bike. It was also faithfully recreated, with the surrounding senery in the game Call of Duty 4.
Just in case it wasn’t mentioned enough times… the derelict pool is in Pripyat, a city in Ukraine near the Chernobyl disaster site. Also, I think we can all agree that not many people would enjoy a rave or skating with the threat of radiation poisoning looming over their head.
Just saying.
Oh hey, was picture number four, “The Derelict Pool” located in Pripyat, Ukraine?
Oh lawd, I fear I’ve been beaten to the question.
Six times in fact.
Dude… would totally make the DIY garage pool if I had the space!
Google “kid of speed” for the pictures taken by the *girl* who took a tour through the area on her motorcycle. She gives the impression that she was alone, but she was part of an organized tour that anyone who has the money and knows who to talk to can go on.
Wow. I think what the creater of this article meant by number 4 is that the pool area itself, its design would be a great place for a rave or skating. I highly doubt they were suggesting we dance next to a poisoned area.
If you notice the soldier’s finger is up and away from the trigger. The child is not in danger.
No# Is The One Recreated On COD4, In Bloc And On A Few Single – Player Missions.
Awesome pools I would shit myself at the Victoria Falls one.
Number 4 is actually quite nice. We don’t even need lights at night, as the soothing glow of the water is enough to safely swim by. Please come and visit, we hardly get any sweet, sweet brains these days… ahem, I mean tourists. Tourists.
wait, im a little unclear. was number four near chernobyl…?
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter24.html
Not some ” dude” –
Elena is her name.
Thats her photo in number four.
these are pretty cool
I can’t believe no one has mentioned this yet!! Did you know that picture # 4 is actually a pool near Chernobly!!! Good luck having a rave there!!!!!!! I should know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn you Ben…I was excited to point out the pool being in Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare….I guess I will just correct your spelling instead. SCENERY, not SENERY.
Once I saw a girl peeing in the bushes out behind the pool. I have no clue why she didn’t/couldn’t make it to the rest room. In fact the restrooms would have been a lot easier, it looked, then getting into the bushes. I wonder what the hell was up with that?
did you know…..Number 4 was a picture taken of a pool near Chenobly?!?!
Does anyone know where the abandoned pool is? I want to have a rave there.
The infinity pool is also commonly referred to as a negative-edge pool, due to the fact that it seems to have no edge (so thats how they got the name!). They’re more commonly built for houses on hillsides, and the view while you’re swimming in one is especially amazing.
P.S.: The reason I know what they are is because my dad used to build pools.
The infinity pool is also commonly reffered to as a negative-edge pool, due to the fact that one side of it (or all sides, in the case of some spas) is built right at the water line, allowing the water to flow over it, which gives it the appearance of missing one side of the pool. Alot of these pools are built for houses on hillsides, and the view while swimming in one is amazing.
PS: I know this because my dad used to build pools.
PSS: It took me a second to realize where I had seen the pool in #4. (Call of Duty 4, if you haven’t guessed it by now)
Pic 4 is actually the site…blah, blah, blah
Are all of you too stupid to click on the “Source” link beneath the derelict pool?
Hey, did you know that #4 is actually a pool near chernobyl?
“derelict pool”
Looks like the one from call of duty 4. cause it is! ahah
so i guess for all of you who can’t read the other FOUR COMMENTS i should mention that pool is near Chernobyl blah blah blah shut the fuck up!
number 4 is also a terrible spot to skate in simply because that is not a bowl pool. it has straight walls…?
Re #2: The soldier’s gun isn’t pointing at the child, it’s pointing downward in front of him. You’ll also notice the soldier has his finger indexed–ie, nowhere near the trigger. This helps prevent accidental discharge. That said, he really should be going around to the other side of the pool, methinks.
I wonder how many more comments you’re going to get about the Prypiat pool…
you guys keep going on about the Ukrainian Radiation pool and how no one would rave there, but what you fail to notice is that some guy had to empty the thing before they left. haw many rads is that?
Do you people read the other comments? Like 5 people say the same thing. Why don’t you people stop having a go at the guy and try something original. Oh yeah, I enjoyed reading the list although some of them made me think, why? The massive swimming pool looks epic.
How come no one from 12 is going to 8… I think that would solve the problem.
Did we really need 12 of you to explain that one of the pictures was in Chernobyl? Who gives a fuck?
HOLY F**K!!!! these pools are AWESOME
Number 4 was a picture taken of a pool near Chenobly that some dude took a picture of while travenelling through the area on his bike. It was also faithfully recreated, with the surrounding senery in the game Call of Duty 4.
Jesus, does anybody bother actually looking to see what others have written before they become the latest idiot to tell us what numerous others have already said?
By the way, I think the pool is near Chernobyl…
definitely some impressive pools
i think we all understand that the derelict pool is in ukraine and has been affected by chernobyl
please if you have nothing else to say about this site then just leave it be
Since the last 4 in a row were about the Prypiat pool, I feel I need to interrupt it.
I was a little thrown off by the “With 60 million gallons of water, I wonder if its ok to take a piss in it?” comment. I’m not offended by the word “piss” but I think my head was in “serene, Pg mode” because of the innocent nature of the page (combined with stumbling). Crazy. Like a waterslide through shark-infested water crazy but without the cool.
i like 1,3,5,6,7,8,10and11
Number 4 was a picture taken of a pool near Chenobly that some dude took a picture of while travenelling through the area on his bike. It was also faithfully recreated, with the surrounding senery in the game Call of Duty 4.
I really don’t think it’s necessary to mess about with sharks. Great post though.
JAJAJAJAJAJ NUMBER 4 WAS COMMENTED ON 8 TIMES ALREADY SAYING THE SAME SHIT, LET ME SAY IT TOO SO I CAN FEEL ALL KNOWING AND POWERFUL
Theres a pool in a hotel in Singapore which hangs out over the edge about 10 storeys up. Similar to the Texas pools and the Auckland one but better I thought. Pretty good colection. Is that big one in Dubai? Would hate to have to vacuum it!
May I also point out, because it clearly hasn’t been already, that number four is a picture of a pool near Chernobyl. Imagine, having a rave while getting radiation poisoning and playing call of duty. Wowzers.
Why are all the Chinese people wearing rubber rings? Can none of them swim??
Absolutely love how people don’t bother to read what other people write and just repeat the same thing over and over again…. of the 8 previous comments, 5 of them are about the derelict pool…why?
LMAO at Mr T
Are you kidding me? There’s no lifeguard in that last pool.
#12 Gross.
number 12 looks urinetastic!
Actually the Russian pool shown abandon would only cause one problem for swimmers… the fact that it is lacking water. Ravers and Skaters would be fine, the radiation from the nuclear meltdown has dissipated enough to not cause problems and in fact the small trace amounts of radiation that may be found by a geiger counter have a greater chance of improving your health much like a sun tan.
#11 – So what happens when a fat person jumps in at frame right, creating a huge wave surge while this guy is dangling at the edge of the falls?
To Janie…Most people do not have (or take) the time to acknowledge the opinions of others. The only thing that matters is THEIR opinion. Welcome to the Children of the Human Race.
Wow pool #4 is so creepy. Anybody know more about it?
Hey, the derelict pool is in Chernobyl. Don’t think anyone mentioned it yet.
That is the pool that is in the Game COD 4…
I think picture 4 is in usa somewhere…
I have been on The Mayan Temple Pool at Atlantis. It is kinda a let down because you are going so fast that you dont get to really see the sharks.
I’m a fucking moron who doesn’t learn anything unless someone puts it in a game, but isn’t that a radioactive pool found in the abandoned town of Pripyat?
i’m betting somebody pee’d in number twelve
Why are all the Chinese people wearing rubber rings? Can none of them swim??
Obviously for the bumper car appeal:)
Picture 4 was actually taken by me two years ago. Not “some dude on a bike”, or Elana – “kid of speed”.
The area is quite safe (I had a geiger counter), and although the Chernobyl accident actually happened in 1986, the power plant remained functional until 2001 and the workers continued to use the pool until around 1991.
Josh… Are you a fucking moron? Did you read the blog? Because he mentions that a commentator named Nick already pointed that out… A day earlier if you review previous comments.
i believe the most crowded pool is the wave pool in Japan, where there is a synthetic wave generator that sweeps through the entire pool every few minutes,
And janice, open your racist eyes and look at the photo carefully, those with rings are mostly women and young children.
Hey, there’s this pool in Pripyat, Ukraine. Apparently it was affected by the whole Chernobyl thing. Surprised it didn’t make this list, looking like a great rave scene and all.
OMGROTFLMAO!!!!!!! You people ROCK! Yeah, I said YOU people.
Based on that last one; I guess Asian’s don’t believe in personal space.
wow the pool Derelict (Radioactive) Pool is actually used in the game call of duty 4
hahahahahaha are you kidding me? try reading two comments up and every one before that:
“BOb June 25, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I can’t believe no one has mentioned this yet!! Did you know that picture # 4 is actually a pool near Chernobly!!! Good luck having a rave there!!!!!!! I should know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I think the rings in the pool in China are for the personal space more than flotation. By using the rings the people are able to extract an extra 18″ of proximity from their hyper-crowded lives.
To the proprietor of the worlds largest swimming pool, It looks to me as if the worlds largest body of water is right next to you… why not take a swim in that instead of dumping millions into a giant pit of constant up-keep. Fucking capitalism.
I find it very sad that the only reason i recognized #4 was because of Call of Duty 4 =p
Pool’s closed.
loved the last pool.
u cant even swim there.
it’s just for u to dip ur toes.
Considering that they have police/guards around Prypiat, and they’ll let you in to look around (assuming you’ve filled out some paperwork, which allegedly isn’t too tough to manage), I can’t imagine anyone’s going to get radiation poisoning from visiting that pool. I also can’t really see anyone getting away with a rave, but that’s for three reasons. First, it’s an abandoned city, there hasn’t been power to that building in decades, most likely. Second, raves suck. They play the most irritating, derivative form of techno ever made. Third, the city’s surrounded by police and guards. I can’t imagine that the Ukrainian government would really approve a dance event there, and I’m pretty sure that cops might just notice that noise, and all the drugged out Ukrainians suddenly descending on the town.
Then again, I can see someone on acid there,”Dude, you can…like… see the radiation. It’s totally in synch with the music.”
i’ve been in the nemo pool
Very interesting pools. I liked the one in the garage. Thanks for sharing.
I peed in a horse once.
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the rave won’t need glow sticks, everyone will be glowing.
where is the largest pool? #8 and pool # 11 would definitely be full of piss, scared out of everyone
Hey Moderators don’t delete this. It is the true story of Picture #4. Copy & paste t an online translator if you don’t belive me!
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LOL
Number 2 is probably the worst photoshop I’ve seen since… ever.
Sabra – MARRY ME! Any chick who knows her way around guns like that and has that kind of common sense is the one for me!
Uhh, the pool above Dallas is not even remotely as badass as the pool at the cour d’Alene resort in Idaho.
15 stories up, overhanging, glass bottom.
isn’t that the swimming pool in COD 4? It would be awesome to throw a rave in there
I really want to go to that Shark Slide one sometime!!!
Apart from #4 being in Pripyat and in the shadow of Chernobyl… How on earth would any one skate in a pool without curves? If you look into the corners everything is right angles(ish). In order to skate a pool you need to have a bowl shaped pool… ie smooth transition between the walls and the bottom.
Its great!! I see #4 and immediatly think ‘Headshot’ LOLz I spend too much ttime on the PC!!
After reading/viewing this pics I really want to play COD4 and pop Zakahev, and I completely forgot what this page was about.
Did you know #4 is actually in Chernobyl?
And how about this one. It is a pool, is it a sea?
http://ifolio.idfact.net/?p=358
I wanna swim in the nemo pool!
That asian pool is gross
Avalon hotel, Gothenburg SWE: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2773242413_8b4d383ccc.jpg
This is the worst collection of comments I’ve ever seen in my life. And believe me, that’s saying a lot.
Lol, Josh with the COD reference. That’s AWESOME! That’s also the first thing I thought when I saw it
number 12 is 80% urine and 100% full
Number 4 is a pool that appears in the video game “Call of Duty 4″ in a level that takes place in a town near Chernobyl. Creepy to see that it truly exists…
The pool I learned to swim at in Coral Gables Florida called Venetian Pool should be in this list of pools. Check it out some day it is real cool even in the Miami summer. Waterfalls and caves etc.
Whoa, Brodie…chill out! Maybe a dip in the pool will help! All in good fun, dontcha know. Anyway, I like the first one, though I think it might induce vertigo or at least a feeling of unease. But sure looks neato!
Hey, Ned, before you start bemoaning capitalism, you should do a little research. The pool you’re talking about is in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Granted, I think it’s stupid, also, but just make sure you’re bashing the wrong group. If you want to see a waste of money, look at some of the things they’re either building or have already built. They’re working on a building that changes shape, with each floor individually rotating around a central elevator. They also have the world’s larges water fountain.
Why? Because they can. They have more money than sense, and are trying to build a tourist trap in a nation that still suffers under Islamic Sharia law.
pools 1 and 6 are sweeet shit!
On June 26, 2009 matt said:
…Ravers and Skaters would be fine, the radiation from the nuclear meltdown has dissipated enough to not cause problems and in fact the small trace amounts of radiation …have a greater chance of improving your health much like a sun tan.
That’s not true Matt. In 2008, I was in Ukraine at the Chernobyl Museum in Kiev and they made it clear that, while the levels of radiation have dropped, it is not safe to be there for more than a very short time. No one can enter without government permission and that’s not granted easily. (Documentaries and scientists.) All you have to do is kick up some dust in those abandoned building and you’ve poisoned yourself.
#2 isn’t photoshopped, its from getty images and you can see it again in the source link.
“The Mayan Temple slide shoots you vertically through a shark tank. ”
It looks an awful lot like the tube goes horizontally through it, no?
Some very cool pools! Makes me want to jump in one with this 98 degree Florida weather… Just not the Chernobyl one.
I’d love to point out that number 9 is actually called an endless pool. It’s what many Olympic swimmers use to train themselves.
Here you go. Some research help.
http://www.endlesspools.com/indexo.html
Is it just me or is number four in call of duty 4.
Chernobyl Pool, You can get yourself a Geiger counter. That is how they probably got the photo.
that one deserted pool in call of duty 4
that baghdad pool is where id go lol
Your second admirable pool, the one in Baghdad. I showed it to a friend of mine who is an armorer in the army. It’s the camera angle, he’s not pointing the gun at anyone, and his finger isn’t on the trigger.
…wonders (along with others) why the hell people would post the same damn idiotic comments already posted by at least a dozen other idiots… why not actually READ the comments, might actually LEARN something… and not look like a total moron…
just a friendly observation
P.S. like the pools.. hey isn’t #4… hahaha nevermind
I am a fucked up putz and a ratbastard. I screwed my family out of $500,000 and ruined my aunt in law.
I am a terrible father and a liar.
i eat you
#12. Lifeguard: easiest job in the world. You can’t drown standing up
Shit man, I wanna know more about the above comment.
anyone heard of mermaids in New Zealand – haha
sorry, that isn’t very clear, have you heard of the club in New Zealand called mermaids…
*gags at the last one* You ever been in a pool like that? The water tastes salty. And no, it WASN’T simulated ocean water.
tell us more…
“However I do worry a little about where that soldier is pointing his gun.”
That is a common thing for those that are inexperienced with firearms to worry about. Worry about where he is pointing his rifle when his finger is off the trigger is like worrying about your TV turning on because you pointed the remote at it even though you didn’t push any buttons.
“Plexiglas” not “flexi glass.” It’s a brand name of acrylic.
@9. Pool in your garage
Yeah they’re called resistance pools. You have a flow of water against you that is equal to your swimming power. You stay in one place!